Blogs from Dalmatia, Croatia, Europe - page 126

G'day everyone, Well, we have done London, Amsterdam and are now in the gorgeous Croatia and I now understand why Josie raves about it so much. But first, London. We arrived early Tuesday morning, checked into our dive of a hotel (seriously you can't get anything decent there for less than $200 per night), and then we slept! I know it sounds like we're sleeping this trip away sometimes but it's tough going all this changing of time zones and it's not being kind to our bodies. Anyway, we got up around 9pm and went and checked out Piccadilly, Leicester Square and then had dinner in China Town before heading back to sleep some more. The next day Stu woke up sick again and spent the day in bed. I was coming in and out because ... read more

Posting time: 4:30pm, Location: Betina, Croatia I arrived in Zagreb at 10:30pm on monday evening. I stayed at Zvon' apartment. The day time temp is constantly at 36. The apartment is not any cooler. Apparently croatian didn't know the world has invented the fan. The first night was unbelieveablely hot. I am glad I don't have to stay here in Zagreb for another night. With the temperature constantly this high, I didn't want to do any tourist stuff. I went to a cafe to meet up with Barbara. We met in a party in vancouver last night. We spent the afternoon walking around the town and have geleto. The geleto is pretty cheap and good. It costs about 0.80 cdn per cone. We left that evening and headed to the coast. It is a 3 hours ... read more

Today is our last day in Croatia before heading out to Hungary and a week’s bike riding in a national park up North of Hungary, then back to Budapest before heading back to real life and the big smoke (literally) of London. Croatia has been great, though we both agree it has been quite strange going from travelling to holidaying and back again as a lot of the areas we have been in are really tourist resorts and not set up for serious travelling, however this has not been a bad thing. The last week has been spent in Korcula, an island off the coast of southern Dalmatia, with about 16,000 people and here the tale begins... Having decided that lying on the beach and swimming and eating was a bit too much relaxing even for ... read more

　　今早給包租婆準備的早餐嚇著，原來除了咖啡外，她真的準備了麵包，而且是三大個新鮮的！平時不飲咖啡，但今早的是新鮮煮好，又熱又濃，不想浪費她的好意，結果還是喝了半壺。 決定多住一晚，包租婆不懂英文，倒易辦，在她面前將兩張100kn鈔票搖搖晃晃，哪有不明之理？我出最後一招，問她"Sprechen Sie Deutsch?"（妳會說德語嗎？）她一邊笑著一邊用唯一懂得的德語回答"nichts"（她大意是想說'no'吧）。 　　來回10小時車程，為的只是兩小時的古城參觀，是否值得見仁見智。在往Dubrovnik的巴士上認識了一位來自L.A. 的男人，總算談得來，但我的英文似乎比之前更爛，慘了。 我跟他談起NBA，因為我將要向他介紹：Split就是Toni Kukoč的家鄉。他似乎霎時間想不起Kukoč是誰，我早料到有此一著，便立即解釋說"He used to be a Chicago Bull…in Jordan times"，他似乎想起來了。他見我有留意NBA，便問我總決賽的最新戰況。多天之前收到的消息是Miami Heat領先Dallas Mavericks 3:2，我極之不願意看到。 他之前到過波蘭、捷克。他強力建議我日後到訪波蘭的Krakow，因為鄰近Auschwitz集中營遺址。 當他知道我剛到過布拉格後，便雀躍地問我有沒有喝過地的捷克啤酒？我立即說那是出奇的甜呢。他便問我：平常慣喝甚麼？我便直截了當一句"Heineken only"。他驚訝地再問：就只有Heineken？我便說是，哈哈。他又說在布拉格吃了兔肉，覺得極之好吃。 他打算在Dubrovnik住一兩晚後乘船北上至Rijeka（幾乎是最近撒格勒布的港口），然後在撒格勒布坐飛機回布達佩斯返回老家；我便說船程太長了，建議他乘船到Split，然後轉乘巴士返回撒格勒布，那是"more reasonable"。他亦同意。我還教他在Dubrovnik下車後接受那些守候多時的女士的「兜搭」，便可以找到民宿過夜了。 雖然他不會到意大利，但仍對我明晚經海路登陸意大利極感興趣... read more

In Croatia right now, in a beautiful city called Dubrovnik. My sister flew in last night to celebrate my birthday with me, here are some pics to recap the past 2 weeks (or something like that) ... read more